[PATCHv2 0/2] vhost: a kernel-level virtio server
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at redhat.com
Wed Aug 12 06:42:47 PDT 2009
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:40:44PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > If I understand it correctly, you can at least connect a veth pair
> > > to a bridge, right? Something like
> > >
> > > veth0 - veth1 - vhost - guest 1
> > > eth0 - br0-|
> > > veth2 - veth3 - vhost - guest 2
> > >
> > Heh, you don't need a bridge in this picture:
> >
> > guest 1 - vhost - veth0 - veth1 - vhost guest 2
>
> Sure, but the setup I described is the one that I would expect
> to see in practice because it gives you external connectivity.
>
> Measuring two guests communicating over a veth pair is
> interesting for finding the bottlenecks, but of little
> practical relevance.
>
> Arnd <><
Oh, hopefully macvlan will soon allow that.
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MST
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